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THE BATTALION Page 4 College Station, Texas SPORTS Wednesday, March 23, 1960 Errors Help CHS Top Hornets, 11-9 By RUSSELL BROWN CHS Correspondent Coach Edsel Jones’ A&M Con solidated Tigers pounded Hunts ville hupler Paul Lindsey for 13 hits and 11 runs, then had to come from behind to down the Hornets 11-9 because of nine Bengal mis eries. Johnn Williams and Vic Clark Intramurals As Class A rifle competition goes into its final week, Co. H-2 defeated Sq. 8, 395-370; Sq. 7 won over Sq. 17, 477-344; Co. D-2 best ed the White Band, 428-371 and Sq. 3 defeated Sq. 5, 326-314. Sq. 17 and the Maroon Band reached the finals in Class A ten nis yesterday as Sq. 17 posted a Ivin over Co. F-2 and the Maroon Band defeated Sq. 1. In Class C softball Walton won over Law and Puryear defeated Pan American. Class B softball got underway as Co. B-2 beat Co. D-2 and Co. A-2 defeated Co. C-2. In Class A softball Co. C-2 defeated Co. A-2 and Co. H-l posted a win over Co. B-2. Class B volleyball continued as the Maroon Band defeated Co. G-2; Sq. 10 won over Sq. 3; Sq. 2 beat Sq. 12; Co. C-l bested Co. E-2; Sq. 7 won over Co. F-l; Co. A-l defeated Sq. 13 and Sq. 8 beat Sq. 6. Intramural cross country, Class A and Class C, will be run April 17. All entries should be submit ted to the intramural office by Friday. Entries for intramural track should be turned in by April 1. Competition will begin May 16 and end May 20. A handball ladder has been es tablished in the intramural office and all persons interested in com peting should go by the office and register to play. Deadline for entries in the open badminton tournament to be held at a future date should be turned in today in the intramural office. AH persons interested in com peting in Battle Group Hardball should contact Larry Smith in Dorm 5, room 112 before Friday. Competition will begin April 4. hurled for Consolidated, giving up only four hits but the nine errors kept the visitors in the contest. Huntsville opened with two runs off three Tiger bobbles and added five more on three hits and three more Tiger misplays in the third. The Bengals bounced back with Ben Jackson’s solo blast into right field in the second and six runs on six hits in the third including a three-bagger by Clark. The Bengals pushed ahead in the fourth on back-to-back doubles by Williams, Bill Haley and Clark’s single before three strikeouts by Clark in the Huntsville sixth brought across two tieing runs. Two dropped third strikes, an out field error and three passed balls gave the Hornets the needed tal lies to knot the count at 9-9. But Williams’ run-producing double and Clarks sacrifice fly brought home the final game win ning runs. Jackson led the winners with 3-3 and two RBI’s with two singles and his round-tripper. Travis Leh man had 2-4 for the losers. ACC, TU Hurdlers Favored at Relays AUSTIN CP) — Abilene Chris tian’s Calvin Cooley and Texas’ Ray Cunningham head up a strong field of hurdlers for the 33rd Texas Relays here April 1-2. Cooley won the 120-yard hurdles last year in 14.3 and his strongest challenger may be Cunningham, a lean sophomore, who topped the timbers in 14.1 in taking that event last week at San Angelo. Others include Bob Swafford of Texas Tech, who once won the event in the freshman-junior col lege divsion, Texas’ Donald Beard and TCU’s Bobby Bernard, former champions in the high school divi sion. Beard also is a defending Southwest Conference champ. The high hurdles list also in cludes Charles Bode of East Texas State, winner of the event at the 1959 Kansas Relays; Rex Stucker of Kansas State, runner-up here last year; and Curtis McClinton, Kansas runner who took the 75- yard event in the Big Eight indoor meet. Soaking Up Sun Not all of the Aggie athletes are busy on and other Henderson Hall athletes made full the practice fields these days. Robert San- use of their swimming pool and sun bathing ders, senior halfback last season, gets in facilities yesterday, shape for the. hotter days to come. Sanders Frosh Blast Navarro, 16-5; Take Second Victory of Year The freshmen baseball team wasn’t satisfied with their 1-0 win over Navarro Junior College in the opener as they came back home and blasted them 16-5 yes terday in an error studded contest. There was scoring in every in nings until the eighth for the Ag gies with errors on both teams be ing almost as plentiful. Terry Cobb and Bill Musemeche were the big bats for the Fish. Cobb got 3-4 and a grand slam homer to boost his RBI count to six for the day. Musemeche hit safely on 4-5 trips to the plate with two doubles, a single and a homerun. Musemeche’s homer was a boom ing line drive that went right over the 359 fence sign into the foot ball practice field. According to SHOE CLEARANCE NAME BRANDS JARMAN COLE HAAN BOB SMART TAYLOR MADE STYLES LOAFERS DRESS OXFORDS MILITARY CASUALS Regularly Priced to $22.95 Now Only no 90 EVERY PAIR OF SHOES MUST BE SOLD A&M MEN’S SHOP an enthusiastic spectator, the ball traveled 700 feet from home plate, but he counted the roll. The Fish grabbed an early four point lead after Mike Spence struck out three in the first inning to put Navarro in the field. Navarro’s first talley came in the third inning when they scored four runs on four hits and three Aggie errors. In the fifth inning Navarro got NAVARRO (5) AB Shields 2b 4 Gonzales ss 1 Gilliam ss 1 Neuman 3b 5 Thompson lb 3 a. Hinson lb 2 Callicutt e 5 Ottman If 5 Dawson ef 5 Hogue rf 5 Hobby p 0 Richardson p 0 Suche p 4 TOTALS 40 FISH (16) AB Singley 3b 4 Cobb ss 4 Puckett c 4 Hall cf 4 Richardson lb 5 Musemeche If 5 Carroll rf 4 Carter 2b 4 Spence p 3 b. Schleiker 1 Warren p 0 TOTALS 38 RBI 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 RBI 0 6 0 2 1 3 0 1 0 0 0 into the homerun act as Callicutt poled one over the same 350-foot sign that Cobb and Musemeche had done earlier. The winner was Spence who was relieved in the sixth by Jerry War ren. Hobby was credited with Navarro’s loss, but only pitched two-third of an inning. Richard son was on the mound one third of an inning for Navarro and Suche finished the contest. The Fish’s hitting was consid erably better than in their opener, but the error count was up as they committed a total of six errors. The next outing for the Fish will be April 1 when they meet the Texas Shorthorns in Austin. Cougars Score, 5 »2, Victory Over Farmers The Houston Cougars scored their first victory over the Aggies since the opening game of 1957 yesterday as they rapped out a 5-2 victory in Houston. The Cougars stayed behind the pitching of Bobby Peters who only allowed six hits. The work of Peters was aided by the work of the Cougars Tickl ers. In the first inning, the Aggies loaded the bases on walks, but when John Burton punched out a line drive to right center, Fielder Virgil Fisher was there to halt the rally. In the second inning Dink Pat terson opened the Aggie bid with a double to right but Second Base- man Gary Nelson made a diving catch on Bill Wisdom’s grounder Ag Golfers Score Impressive Wins The Aggie golfers have been busy chalking up impressive wins this week by taking Lamar Tech Monday and North Texas State yesterday. Both Lamar and North Texas have racked up an impressive na tional record for the past few years. In Monday’s 7%-l% victory over Lamar Billy Martindale paced the Cadets with a three-under par 67. He defeated Bobby Bluhm, three and two. Martindale was two down thru nine holes and rallied to overtake the top Lamar man. Dickie Duble was also three down through 10 but wpn over Jim Wright. Other low scores were" the 69 fired by Jim Fetters in his win over Jerry Scott and Johnny John son’s par in defeating Chuck Pal mer. Martindale and Al Jones were the low scorer in yesterday’s North Texas match with their one under par, 69. Johnson had 71, John Lively shot 72 and Fetters had 70. The Cadets wo nthe match, 7-0. The Aggies will open Southwest Conference next Tuesday when they open with Baylor in Waco. and doubled Patterson off second. The first Aggie score came in the fourth when Clifford Davis beat out a bunt and moved to third when Burton’s fly ball fell un touched near third base. Wisdom’s fly to deep short scored Davis. In the fifth, the Ags got an other, when Byron Barber doubled to score Dick Hickerson, who had made second after Peters threw wild to first on an easy grounder. Gary Priddy was the losing pitcher and had to be relieved by Jack Roeder in the sixth. Peters was the winner as he went the full nine innings for the Cougars. Burton was the only man to manage two hits for the Cadets in his four trips to the plate. The Ags next game is with Lamar Tech tomorrow at 3 p.m, on Kyle Field. COURT’S SHOES SHOE REPAIR North Gate ^ Marf your career ^ with a progressive firm! FOLEY’S Houston's Great Department Store WILL 31 ON YOUR CAMPUS April 5th To interview Senior Students •majoring in: Marketing • Retailing Management • Liberal Arts General Business « Economics Home Economics Make your appointment NOW to discuss a career in: Credit, Finance and Control Retail Merchandising Store Operations For complete information, contact your Placement Office PEANUTS By Charles M. 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